‘Evil’ companies are providing the petrol for our cars, the tanks for our defense, the medicine for our sick, the seeds for our crops.
Can we do without?
The Rockefeller foundation, the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, ethical banks and others are slowly selling their investments in some of these companies.
This depresses their share price a bit and diminishes their access to capital.
While tanks and dirty petrol are ugly things and gene-manipulated seeds are highly controversial, the question is if we do not actually need all of that; to move, to defend and feed ourselves.
Is it bad to invest in things we still need, even if we would wish we could already do things more sustainably?
Society is hypocrite when we talk green and clean and then fill our cars, travel on holiday to the Seychelles and buy cheap pork chops.
How do you bridge this gap?